“does Christianity call for human sacrifice? Are believers called to surrender their interests and judgment to the whim of God? If God called upon you to kill your son or wipe out a village or slaughter adulterers, would you do it? Why or why not?”
The questions are the result of careless thinking. Focus, Mr. Hudson. And you will see that the two actions—surrendering to God’s will and human sacrifice—exist in two separate categories. Yet you treat them as though they were on the same level.
Abraham’s intention to sacrifice his son only had value in that Abraham was obeying God.
But obeying God has value in itself. To understand this distinction you must abandon second rate thinking.
There is also this found in the Genesis story:
5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
The fact that Abraham said, “WE will come back to you,” indicates he had the assurance (by faith) that whatever God was going to do was not going to result in the annihilation of his son.